Korea Field Workplace: ‘Confidential Project 2’ Wins Weekend

Comedy motion movie “Confidential Project 2: Worldwide” remained on the high of the South Korean field workplace for the fourth consecutive weekend. Its enduring success got here regardless of a slew of recent releases supposed to catch the Nationwide Basis Day vacation weekend site visitors.

Between Friday and Sunday “Confidential Project 2” garnered $2.19 million from 304,000 ticket gross sales, and a market share of 29%. The weekend earnings elevate it to a $43.3 million cumulative since launch on Sept. 7, 2022.

It’s only the fourth movie this yr to have handed the six million spectators mark and the third Korean movie to take action, following “The Roundup” (12.7 million) and “Hansan: Rising Dragon” (7.26 million).

Korean comedy, “Trustworthy Candidate 2” opened in second place with $1.74 million over the weekend and $2.69 million over the 5 days since its launch on Wednesday.

Korean musical, “Life is Stunning” positioned third. It earned $1.07 million over the weekend and $1.75 million over its opening seven days.

Two different new titles, each animations, reached the highest 5. Japan’s “Crayon Shin-chan: Faculty Thriller! The Splendid Tenkasu Thriller” earned 899,000 over the weekend and $1.04 million over 5 days. Korean-made “Whats up Carbot the Film: The Secret of the Suspicious Magic Troupe” took $538,000 over the weekend and $612,000 over 5 days.

Monday is a public vacation in South Korea, which means that there may very well be some continued uplift for the field workplace. (There are two additional holidays on Oct 9 and Oct. 10.) However the newest one did little to revive cinemas’ fortunes.

The newest weekend delivered a nationwide $7.71 million, in comparison with the final week’s non-holiday session, value $7.21 million.

Except for the Chuseok vacation in mid-September, Korean field workplace has settled again right into a $7-10 million per weekend vary for the reason that starting of August. That adopted a a lot stronger three months following the ending of most COVID restrictions firstly of Could.

The push of newcomers had the impact of edging apart two current releases, the re-released authentic “Avatar” and Korean thriller “Venture Wolf Searching.” “Avatar” managed $697,000 over the weekend for a present launch whole of $2.30 million. “Venture Wolf Searching,” fell from second to seventh place with a weekend rating of $270,000. It now has a 12-day cumulative of $3.07 million.